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HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillWill the hon. Lady tell us how much extra cost filling a Spitfire with fuel will incur under this extra avgas taxation?15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. We have had some good debates in the course of the Bill. I thank right hon. and hon. Members for their contributions, but…15 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillAs I have already said to my right hon. Friend, without venturing a percentage, the test for at-risk goods is whether there is a “genuine and substantial risk”, and therefore…15 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Customs Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2020No, what I have said is that, since we do not gather data at the moment, what we are doing is continuing a system that already exists for a period of time—or we would be if we put…10 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Customs Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Customs Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. It is a delight to see you in the Chair, Ms Nokes,…10 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Customs Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I thank the Opposition spokesmen for their comments. The right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East says this is not technical. Of course, by “technical” I do not mean that…10 Dec 2020HANSARDDraft Customs Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2020Sure. What I was saying, as the right hon. Gentleman will recall, as regards duration is that they last for six months. Of course, to seek a guarantee in such circumstances is a…10 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and, yes, the legal basis on which VAT is charged will change. I will spare him the details of the difference between import VAT and…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI am terribly grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. She has criticised the Government for spending £80 million in support of traders and a facilitated approach to the border.…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI have no doubt that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will be updating the House over time as the different provisions he has negotiated come into force but, from our…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI thank my hon. Friend for his question, and I will take that under review. We have put in place a set of measures designed to tidy up the position that particularly arises in…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillAs the hon. Gentleman will know, goods that are, as it were, normally circulating in Northern Ireland will be able to go into Great Britain from the beginning. There will be some…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI am not quite sure where that was heading, but we have the Bill in front of us and the Government have made it clear that the so-called “notwithstanding” clauses will not be…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillYes, I was simply paraphrasing the point that my right hon. Friend made. Under the terms of the protocol, we need to treat goods at risk of such onward movement into the EU…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI suspect we are going to go around this many times, but I am happy to give way again.09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillVAT in Northern Ireland will be subject to the EU principal VAT directive, and for that purpose the ECJ will be the judicial body. I cannot comment as to whether or not there will…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. It is a delight to speak under your chairmanship, Madam Deputy Speaker. In three weeks’ time, the transition period will…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) BillDame Rosie, what a delight it is to see you in the Chair, metaphorically if not actually. It is a measure of the wide gulf between the House’s professed intentions and its actual…09 Dec 2020HANSARD Taxation (Post-transition Period) Bill: Business of the HouseI would simply say this in response to the right hon. Gentleman: the Government have been moving at great speed, and much of the regulation is already in the public domain,…09 Dec 2020